Logic and Mathematics
Philosopher Denis Bonnay on Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason", logical inferences, and attempts to divide math...
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philosophy
November 9, 2016
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philosophy
October 31, 2016
The Liar Paradox
Philosopher Stephen Read on the principle of excluded middle, noncontradiction, and Buridan's ass
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Impact
October 24, 2016
Logical Paradoxes
Historian and Philosopher of Logic Stephen Read on the history of paradoxes, semantic paradoxes, and its direc...
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astronomy
October 6, 2016
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician and Historian of Mathematics Jeremy Gray on the theory of quadratic forms, the rediscovery of Ce...
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chemistry
September 13, 2016
Mausoleum Gonbad-e Qābus
Chemist Artem Oganov on Penrose’s patent, quasicrystals and connection between art, mathematics and chemistry
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DNA
September 12, 2016
Protein Folding Using Quantum Topology
Mathematician Jørgen Andersen on local geometry of hydrogen bonds, quantum states of proteins and future metho...
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Space
September 2, 2016
Higher Dimensional Gravity
Mahdi Godazgar on traveling through the Earth, alternative solutions of black holes and possibility of life in...
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mathematics
August 8, 2016
Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Topology
Mathematician Jørgen Andersen on topological quantum field theory, path integrals, and quantization of moduli ...
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mathematics
June 28, 2016
Prime Numbers
Mathematician James Maynard on the Riemann Hypothesis, Euclid's proof, and the problems of Paul Erdős
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mathematics
July 3, 2015
Non-Bayesian Decision Theory
Mathematician Itzhak Gilboa on known and unknown probabilies, various descriptive models, and ambiguity
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Space
March 2, 2015
The Mathematical Structure of Our Universe
Physicist Max Tegmark on using mathematics to explain the Universe, and how we could develop software to map a...
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mathematics
August 21, 2014
Informal Social Institutions in Soviet Mathematics
MIT Lecturer Vyacheslav Gerovitch on admission policies in institutions, mathematical seminars, and the identi...
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